On December 12, the director-general of the World Trade Organization, Pascal Lamy, announced that he would not convene a ministerial meeting in December to conclude the Doha Round of multilateral ...

Virtually all observers concur that the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations in the World Trade Organization is faltering badly. Agreement may have been reached on the principle (although not ...

With a perfect track record of having missed all dead-lines and achieving few agreements of scant substance since it was launched in November 2001, the Doha Round's negotiations were fully suspended ...

A clear majority of global leaders, pundits and economists think more free trade is part of the solution to the global crisis. At the recent G20 summit, one prime minister after another promised to ...

ACCRA (Reuters) - The faltering Doha round of global trade talks can still succeed, but it remains to be seen whether a deal can be clinched soon or take several years, U.S. Trade Representative Susan ...

MISSED deadlines are a hardy perennial of world trade talks. The Doha round, launched in November 2001, is no exception: a deadline of end-2002 for agreement on the compulsory licensing of patented ...

AT LAST it is official. After stumbling on for months, the Doha trade talks have collapsed. On July 24th, at the end of yet another futile gathering of trade ministers in Geneva, Pascal Lamy, the ...

Israeli and Hamas negotiators have been taking part in the latest round of ceasefire talks in Doha since July 6, discussing a U.S.-backed proposal for a 60-day ceasefire that envisages a phased ...

The Obama Administration seems to view Doha delay as a minor issue since they view the export gains from the current package as small. This column argues that this calculation is based on a false ...